Dutch Printer and Publisher Joan Blaeu II (1650-1712) Identified as the Subject of a Portrait by Michiel van Musscher (1645-1705).
The most famous seventeenth-century European printing, publishing, and cartography firm was that of the Blaeu family of Amsterdam. Founded c. 1599 by Willem Jansz Blaeu (1571-1638), it was continued through three generations by his son, Joan Blaeu I (1596-1673), and his grandsons, including Joan Bla...
| Publicado en: | Dutch Crossing Vol. 39; no. 1; pp. 74 - 84 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Mar2015
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